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Welcome to the Slappin' Glass Newsletter, thank you for reading and for your support!

Newsletter at a glance:

🏀Oostende Playbook

🎤 Gordie Chiesa: Inside the Episode

🥇Best of the Week

➕And more

Let's dive in...

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📺Oostende Playbook: 20 Minute Breakdown Video of one of Belgium's best teams, Oostende. Video also includes PDF's of Oostende's entire playbook.

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We've heard from a number of coaches over the past year about how great a guest longtime Utah Jazz assistant under Jerry Sloan, Gordie Chiesa, would be on the show, and boy did Coach Chiesa not disappoint. As one coach tweeted... "Rarely do you listen to episodes twice, but a strong recommendation for Chiesa."

Coach Chiesa was indeed terrific as we explored a variety of interesting subjects including:

• "Real World Coaching Conversations" - We discussed the types of real-world issues that arrive in every locker room across the globe, and Coach Chiesa's thoughts on how best to handle them.
• Half-Court Execution: During the Stockton/Malone era the Jazz were well known for their terrific execution in the half-court, and Coach Chiesa dives into a variety of important subjects about how that happens at every level. Some topics include:
  • The "Partnership of Screening"
  • ​The Dangers of Overdribbling ​
  • Teaching points of the Stockton/Malone PNR
• "Start, Sub, or Sit!?": During our favorite segment on the show we heard a ton of thought provoking ideas from Coach Chiesa on:
  • "Shots that Kill You Offense"
  • Teaching Guards to Get Through Screens
  • The Value of Bench Scoring
  • Why a 9 Player Rotation is Ideal
  • Getting "Backtips" and "Turnaround Baskets"
  • And "Why You Never Drive Baseline on a Guy Wearing Black Socks"... (yes you read that correctly)

You can listen to Coach Chiesa's entire episode here...

Listen to Coach Chiesa!

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Tactical

Click Links to Watch Full Videos

📺 KK Igokea - Dive & Flare Screen

"Enjoythis nice post action from KK Igokea of the Adriatic and Champions League. Running their PG into the post, then clearing space with a dive cut to follow behind it with a flare screen for the passer."

✚ Pair With: Stan Van Gundy explaining the stress put on the defense when the offense uses the post as their trigger man.

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📺 Brian Goorjian - Defending Luka Doncic​

"HC Brian Goorjian discussing how difficult it was to keep Luka Doncic off balance in the PnR during their Bronze Medal win over Slovenia."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Coach Goorjian, detailing his stint with the Australian NT, transition defense, and aggressive PnR coverages.

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📺 Limoges CSP - Stagger Wheel Screen ​

"A fun blocker mover action to generate a look for your shooter & annoy his defender from French Club Limoges CSP."

✚ Pair With: A previous breakdown on French Euroleague club ASVEL and Coach TJ Parker's playbook.

Interesting Reads

📚Overseas Basketball Salaries - Country by Country Breakdown​

"Overseas basketball salaries can range anywhere from $0 (yes, some players do play for free and for the experience) - 4 million a year (USD) with Asian and European basketball leagues leading the way when it comes to wages. Factors such as skill level, nationality, playing resume, league, country, age, local economy and team urgency will all greatly influence basketball contracts."

➕Pair With: Our conversation with 5-Time Euroleague Champion, Kyle Hines, on career growth of a Pro overseas.

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📚"Stress is Additive -- Mike McCarthy and the Cowboys are Practicing Less"​

“Frankly, you have to practice what you preach: physical, mental, emotional stress is additive. So being in tune with that, and just stress that the players go through later in the year is higher. "

➕Pair With: Our conversation with former Euroleague Coach, Stefan Grassegger, on how stress and anxiety affects athletes and coaches.

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📚The Benefits of Focusing On Principles Instead of Goals​

"When you focus on principles it’s not that you don’t set goals. It’s that your goals shift from being be-all, end-all to being adaptable strategies that work in service of something larger."

➕Pair With: Our podcast with WNBA father-son coaching duo, Mike and Eric Thibault, on setting goals and offseason "resets".

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Thank you for reading and have a great week coaching,

Dan and Pat

info@slappinglass.com

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